Dr. Vincent Barbieri is a licensed Clinical Psychologist in San Diego, California (PSY#34899). He owns a private therapy practice and works with adults and adolescents, specializing in treatment of general anxiety, social anxiety, and depressive disorders in addition to trauma, grief, relationship conflict, and Borderline Personality Disorder. Dr. Barbieri received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from American University in 2022 where he was formally trained for 5 years in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) at The Wake Kendall Group, a DBT-Linehan Board Certified DBT Program located in Washington, D.C. This behavioral perspective will become evident when working with Dr. Barbieri, however his style pulls from many different therapeutic treatments such Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Rogerian Therapy, and Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT).
As a doctoral candidate, Dr. Barbieri researched the relationship between one’s ability to regulate their emotions and the capacity for empathy and perspective-taking. He was primarily interested in understanding how different forms of attachment influenced a person’s capacity to empathize and maintain relationships when they became distressed. His dissertation titled “Developing A Transdiagnostic Mentalization Skills Module” created a treatment program that aimed to help those who had difficulty communicating with others when distressed and can be found by clicking this link.
Prior to receiving his PhD, Dr. Barbieri was a research coordinator at Columbia University’s Substance Treatment and Research Service and received a Master of Arts in the Clinical Psychology program at Columbia University in 2014, publishing several papers related to opioid detox, with selected publications listed below:
Barbieri, V.A., Mishlen, K., Sullivan, M., & Bisaga, A. (2017). Baseline predictors of outpatient induction onto extended-release naltrexone. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 100(171), e15.
Mishlen, K., Barbieri, V.A., Sullivan, M. A., & Bisaga, A. (2017). Opioid use following an outpatient detoxification and induction onto XR-NTX: testing the blockade as a predictor of retention in treatment. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 100(171), e146.
Williams, AR, Barbieri, V.A., Mishlen, K, Levin, F, Nunes, E, Mariani, J, & Bisaga, A (2017). Long-term follow up study of community-based patients receiving XR-NTX for opioid use disorders. The American Journal on Addictions, 26(4), 319-325.
He has participated in a number of research labs primarily focused on studying emotions, first at Georgetown University’s Culture and Emotions Lab, then at Columbia University’s Loss, Trauma and Emotion Lab, followed by American University’s Interpersonal Emotion Lab where he researched the emotional components of Borderline Personality Disorder.
Education:
Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, American University, 2022
M.A. Clinical Psychology, American University, 2018
M.A. Psychology in Education, Columbia University, 2014
B.A. Psychology, Georgetown University, 2012